2016
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Universal hijack hole turns DIY Wix blogs into botnets
Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief…
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How to protect your business from DDoS attacks
Increasingly, IT teams find themselves on the front lines of a battle with an invisible enemy. Cyber-threats and attacks continue to increase, with the anonymous intruders breaching large…
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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood
IT admins are having a hell of an evening? You can bet on it! Well, on another website William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a…
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William Hill website under siege from DDoS attacks
Life’s a lottery, even with Darktrace supporting your online services… William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool
Cops say net crims launched 1.7 million attacks from 15 year-old’s creation. A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that…
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Gartner: Despite the DDoS attacks, don’t give up on Dyn or DNS service providers
Enterprises going it alone against such an attack ‘would have been toast The DDoS attacks that flooded Dyn last month and knocked some high-profile Web sites offline don’t mean businesses…
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Number of DDoS attacks down but speed and size increases
The number of DDoS attacks fell more than 40 percent to 97,700 attacks in the second quarter of 2016 according to the latest threat report from DDoS security…
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Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums…